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Hi! I know it's been awhile since I've been on. WELCOME BACK ME!

Anyway, my play was today. Opening night. It was a wreck. It was supposed to be 40 minutes (it's called "A 40-Minute Two Gentlemen Of Verona") and it was 25. The actors talked too fast and not loudly enough. The stage manager was horrible, not doing anything. She hardly came to practices and when she did, she would go on YouTube! My friend is soooo much better! I loved my part, and rocked it!

I also think I'm really starting to like two people in it. (Typical boy-crazy me!) One of them is amazing. Just...ugh. HORMONES!

Does anyone else have stories of musicals/plays wrecks? And trust me, there was a lot more happening badly in this! It makes me want to cry... Maybe because Someone whistled and said Mcbeth many times just to tick me off....

submitted by ~Blue Fairy~, age 13, Neverland
(April 10, 2014 - 8:26 pm)

back to the Pudding's Place

WELCOME BACK BLU!!!!! 

Too bad your play wasn't all that great. I HATE when plays don't go off properly!

Okay, you asked for a play-wreck story, so here is one (I'm pretty sure I said it before, but I never tire of airing complaints):

I did a summer theater camp when I was eight and really enjoyed it, so I did it again when I was 12, and it was so totally terrible. The first play we did the campers actually put together, so there was a lot of hard work involved, but the second time, the idiotic teacher gave us The Lorax. By Dr. Seuss. I got the title character, but I didn't even get the fabulous mustache!!! That was problem #1. Problem #2 was that the teacher had to write in all these political things in order to make it long and relevant, so it was basically a bunch of essays framed by the rhyming, childish prose of the actual book. It had no plot, no character, and everything was so trite and uninteresting.

The worst part about it was that we all had had nothing to do and it got really cliquey. It was ten girls in our group, and some of them bullied the other girls (one of them took the role of director and kept telling me I was doing something wrong although no one else seemed bothered by it!) and talked about so many "In" things, and looked down on the others who just weren't interested. They also prank-called a few people and one flirted with the teacher. It was all just...really messy and painful and I am losing faith in theater!

Ugh. 

submitted by Everinne, age Immortal, Hello!
(April 11, 2014 - 5:44 pm)

Thanks for welcoming me back, Everinne! :)

 

There was another performance tonight, and I really enjoyed it! It was better and fun. (Even though somebody mixed his lines together and made me not say a line!)

 

Your story sounds horrible, I'm sorry that happened! DON'T GIVE UP ON THEATER THOUGH... EVER!!!! 

submitted by ~Blue Fairy~, age 13, Neverland
(April 11, 2014 - 10:27 pm)

I have been in three plays and am in my third musical right now, but I have had the fortune to have had almost no bad experiences with plays or musicals... But then again we practice for two months, three days a week

submitted by Katie M, age 11, Chelsea, MI
(April 12, 2014 - 11:23 am)

Yesterday was my  show. There is this part about the secret tunnel, and the lead forgot it!

submitted by S.E.
(April 13, 2014 - 7:02 am)

I went to a musical theatre camp and everyone was very clique-ish so it wasn't that great. But the production was great and I went back each year for 3 years and the cliques began to evaporate into one big one. Each year, the camp just got better and better!

submitted by Birdy
(April 13, 2014 - 7:14 pm)

@ Birdy:

Lucky you. 

submitted by Everinne, age 14, Envious of Camp Joy
(April 13, 2014 - 8:47 pm)